doing something with total love.

“mom! I need to poop!!” as I was in the middle of driving Mer who was also hauling Finder and Note.

“I TOLD YOU!!!” I said emphatically.

Let’s go back to an hour earlier before we left our resort at Seaside, I warned the boys to do their business as I’d not be able to stop in between Seaside and Mt. Hood. “I don’t need to,” choruses.

I then stopped at the gas station before hitting Route 26, I again reminded them to take a dump at the station if they needed to.

Choruses of “nahs.”

Then this. I told that poor kid to hold it in and that he had to wait. Lucky for him, it was just another 27 minutes.

Well, I did try, I thought we could go to that specific gas station and belatedly realized that Mer was NOT going to fit. I had to abandon the plan while making a right turn into some industrial road, looping around to try and get back on Route 26. When doing so, the back of the RV scraped the road (I saw grooves there and that gives me an impression that I wasn’t the only RV driver who thought the same). It was a loud SCREEEECCCHHH and that kid’s eyes widened and he said, “I can wait.”

When we finally arrived, I was so focused with setting up and hours later, I remembered that kid needed to poop. “Hey, didn’t you need to go?”

“Nah.”

I shit you not.

chaotic bliss

eitan got this shirt from a goodwill store, "relax" is spelled out beneath the roots.

Got the shit scared out of them!! Glad all are no worse for wear! To their credit, it IS kinda hard to go on command.😳

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Margot

9/14/2017 04:05:12 pm

I love it. My parents use to do the same thing when we were on road trips. It never worked. Someone always had to go!

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Tammy Murphy

9/15/2017 06:05:13 pm

Your title says it all! 😂

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Denise

9/20/2017 05:38:09 am

That's why at every stop, I always tell my kids - GO and SIT on the toilet even tho they don't feel anything. Almost always, something comes out! It applies to me too. It helps. I even do that when we're not on a road trip. They now know themselves. ;).

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